The Division of Fleet Operations was established as a new division of Administrative Services in 1997. Fleet is charged with handling state vehicle acquisition, repair, preventive maintenance, and fueling of state vehicles.
For FY 2012 the Department of Administrative Services made several changes that affect the Division of Fleet Operations. First, the department moved the Travel Office from the Division of Finance to Fleet Operations. Second the department moved State Surplus Property and Federal Surplus Property programs from Fleet Operations to the Division of General Services internal service fund.
During the 2015 General Session, the Legislature appropriated for Fiscal Year 2016, $73,373,300 from all sources for ISF - Fleet Operations. This is a 5.2 percent increase from Fiscal Year 2015 revised estimated amounts from all sources. The total includes $150,000 in new approprations from the General/Education Funds.
In addition to statewide compensation and internal service fund cost increases, the following appropriation adjustments were made during the 2015 General Session:
Administrative Costs as a Percentage of Division Costs
Administration costs should be kept as low as possible so resources can be used for providing services to customer agencies. Note that the Governor's Office of Management and Budget is currently revamping the performance measures for Administrative Services.
UCA 63A Chapter 9 creates the Division of Fleet Operations (Section 201) and delineates the division's duties (Section 401). Duties include:
- Perform all administrative duties related to managing the state's vehicles
- Coordinate all purchases of state vehicles
- Establish fleet information system(s) for state vehicles
- Make rules regarding maintenance, safety, loss prevention, procurement, fuel management, cost management, disposal, reallocation, rate structures, and insurance requirements for state vehicles
- Establish a parts inventory
- Create and administer a fuel dispensing service
- Emphasize customer service
- Conduct an annual audit of all state vehicles
- Charge rates approved by the Rate Committee and Legislature
- Conduct a market analysis
- By November 1 of each year submit a state-owned vehicle report to the Governor and Legislative Fiscal Analyst
UCA 63A-9-601 requires the division to ensure that vehicles owned or leased by the state are properly marked
UCA 63A-9-401.5 requires the division to develop and coordinate the implementation of a statewide vehicle fleet cost efficiency plan, which includes:
- Goals for vehicle fleet cost efficiency
- A summary of agency submitted, plans, statistics, and progress
- Standard measures of cost including vehicle cost per mile, total vehicles, total fuel used, and miles per gallon
- Goals for purchasing the most economically appropriate size and type of vehicle
- Cost reduction measures
- reducing inventories of underutilized vehicles
This budgetary line item contains four programs; however, the Administration program exists only to account for overhead costs of services provided to the other three programs.
COBI contains unaudited data as presented to the Legislature by state agencies at the time of publication. For audited financial data see the State of Utah's Comprehensive Annual Financial Reports.